Gay people in Uganda: love on the run | World news | The Guardian Sad what is going on with all the homophobia in Uganda these days. These stories and pictures really humanized the problems for me. Gay life in Uganda - in pictures | World news | The Guardian Cute couples like Ema and Simon give a human face to this tragedy: Ema and Simon are a couple living in a shelter for gay people in Kampala. If a new bill becomes law, homosexuality will be punishable by death.